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I just saw this posted up on the Broken Age Backer forum.

Here’s a Rock Paper Shotgun playthrough/interview with Tim Schafer, which I’m watching now and finding very interesting. He talks about some of the issues people have been discussing on these boards, such as Broken Age’s streamlined interface, easy puzzles, the tone of the game, etc.

The introductory scenes of Vella’s story is shown, so expect a few spoilers.

Edit: Oops, just Vella’s story

Stacking can be cute and childish from looks but heavy in tones , BA aint that.
Infact BA is even more childish than CostumeQuest.

Them animatronics and talking trees, birds dont help the case either.

To take this thread back on topic, my initial thoughts on Broken Age were ‘wow this looks great’ ‘wow this has some great ideas’ and then ‘wow this writing is bad’.

I know Schaffer’s games have always been verbose, but there’s no reason for so much useless text. Good writing should tell me a lot of things in as concise and evocative way as possible, not spread it all out over long, laborious, unskippable voice acting.

Jyn - 25 January 2014 07:44 AM

To take this thread back on topic, my initial thoughts on Broken Age were ‘wow this looks great’ ‘wow this has some great ideas’ and then ‘wow this writing is bad’.

I know Schaffer’s games have always been verbose, but there’s no reason for so much useless text. Good writing should tell me a lot of things in as concise and evocative way as possible, not spread it all out over long, laborious, unskippable voice acting.

I didn’t think the writing was as good as Schafer’s has been in past works, but for different reasons. Can you give any examples of what you mean?

I second this request. Wut?

Poor writing is the worst flaw of this game, even more than “puzzles”.

I’m quite disappointed with this release, more than with any other major kickstarter (high expectations didn’t help either).

No one wants to explain themselves. *sigh*
Well, I understand, I don’t want to most the time either…

I thought the writing was excellent. I clicked on and tried everything I could, even stuff I knew wouldn’t pan out, just to hear what Shay and Vella had to say. Great situational comedy, too - Shay’s entire existence is amusing.

Beyond the spoken lines, the story set-up and what’s happening “between the lines” seems pretty clever too. There’s stuff going on under the surface that I didn’t even pick up on the first time I played it, and I love that kind of thing.

I don’t think the quality had anything to do with it being made with kids in mind - and anyway, many kids shows these days have funnier ideas than some, supposedly, adult shows - it simply wasn’t as overtly humorous as previous Schafer works. There were funny ideas in there, but the big laughs were thin on the ground.

If people don’t offer an explanation to their complaint, I think ‘poor writing’ just means ‘I didn’t like it’.

I thought the writing was excellent.  In this matter, if someone doesn’t like it, it’s definitely a matter of taste compared to quality.

Bt

I also thought the writing was excellent and allot of the jokes had double meaning. This has been the first adventure that has drawn me in playing it since a long time. About only the old adventures pulled me in like that.